My Own Quotes - Page 36

• I love Cher Lloyd's music. I didn't actually hear her music as I was creating my own, but it's cool that we have styles that are considered to be similar.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Creating, Style

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• I'm not great with money. I'd go crazy if I were left to my own devices. My mum and girlfriend sort it out. I'm not driven by it, but I love to be generous.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Girlfriend, Crazy, Driven

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• The world that surrounded me disgusted me so I chosen to invent one of my own.

  Pete Doherty

  World, Disgusted, Chosen

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• I don't really deal with the attention I receive to be honest. I build up a fantasy world around me that I inhabit. I cherry pick elements of literature, music, film, history and art, then weave them together to construct a fantasy reality to live in. It doesn't always work out though, I got evicted from my own fantasy once, which was quite embarrassing.

  Pete Doherty

  Art, Reality, Film History

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• When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's.

  Moby

  Selfish, Stuff, Kind

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• New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language.

  Daniel Hannan

  Father, Grateful, Presidential

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• I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.

  Mark Gatiss

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I don't consider myself a racist, I don't hate other peoples, but I certainly want to preserve my own. And I think that's true of all people.

  David Duke

  Hate, Thinking, People

  David Duke Podcast, www.davidduke.com. August 25, 2006.

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• I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and reinvent yourself.

  Akon

  Space, People, Giving

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• I rarely use a stylist, and enjoy choosing my outfit on my own. If you know what suits your body and personality then your individual style emerges naturally.

  Hilary Rhoda

  Personality, Style, Use

  "All-American Beauty Hilary Rhoda Gives Up Her Style Secrets". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 19, 2012.

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• Every time I ran the mile I was aware of my own weakness, there was some opponent who could give me a hell of a fight, so I never went into a race with a sense of invincibility. I always had that feeling of fragility and nerves which made me run faster.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Fighting, Race

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• In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

  Hugh Hefner

  Fun, Social, Significant

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• My beloved grows right out of my own heart. How much more union can there be.

  Rumi

  Heart, Unions, Beloved

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• I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.

  Ziggy Marley

  Travel, Jamaica, Strange Places

  FaceBook post by Ziggy Marley from Apr 21, 2012

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• My heart is closed, soon it will crumble away. Stifling my tears, I scream every day. My heart has shown me that believing is nothing. My own heart killed me.

  Kyo

  Believe, Heart, Tears

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• If I don't have fun, it's my own damn fault.

  Susan Messing

  Fun, Faults, Damn

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• Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes.

  Peter Arnett

  Eye, Opportunity, Media

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• Slowly I learn the importance of powerlessness.  I experience it in my own life and I live with it in my work.  The secret is not to be afraid of it—not to run away.  The dying know that we are not God… All they ask is that we do not desert them.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Running, Secret, Dying

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• Some libs took offense at my David Broder quip earlier. In my own defense, I was taught in college it's OK to disrespect dead white males.

  James Taranto

  College, White, Disrespect

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• Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.

  Daryl Hall

  Hero, Singers, Influence

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I need to work outside government, on my own.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Government, Work Out, Needs

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• As I was getting interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, or some big pub guy, all I remember was that he went off to the bathroom for a second, and they brought out my omelet. The next thing I remember, I woke up, and I was on the side of my own omelet, and there was no one at Buck's. Everyone was gone. They just let me sleep.

  Max Levchin

  Wall, Sleep, Guy

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• My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening. For every time I have held or been held, every time I have listened or been listened to, experience burns like wood in that eternal fire, and I find myself in the presence of love. This has always been so.

  Mark Nepo

  Powerful, Believe, Fire

  Mark Nepo (2007). “The Exquisite Risk: Daring to Live an Authentic Life”, p.27, Harmony

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• I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

  Dido Armstrong

  Childhood, Decision, Stories

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• I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow travellers, fellow sufferers. I do not want to add one least straw to the burden you already carry.

  Dorothy Day

  Prayer, Love You, Heart

  "House of hospitality".

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